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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: CDTV News
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References: <1991Jun30.092929.22762@news.iastate.edu> <13636@uwm.edu> <1991Jun30.205059.4196@news.iastate.edu>
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1991 21:56:05 GMT

In article <1991Jun30.205059.4196@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Barrett Marc N) writes:
>In article <13636@uwm.edu> gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes:
>>From article <1991Jun30.092929.22762@news.iastate.edu>, by barrett@iastate.edu (Barrett Marc N):
>>>    BTW, it amazes me how much Amiga users are suddenly comfortable with
>>> inferior technology.  Way back when the Amiga was brand-new, the attitudes
>>> of MAC people -- that they would accept inferior technology simply because 
>>> it came from Apple -- drove Amiga users mad.  Now, the Amiga users are
>>> accepting inferior Amiga technology simply it is from Commodore.  
>>
>>Okay.  Now you can hold on.  Who the hell ever said they were
>>COMFORTABLE????  I'd love 8bit graphics.  I don't want a 24bit graphic
>>chipset.  It's a bad idea.  That's for graphic boards to handle, and
>>for DIG to deal with, IMHO.  What is needed now is an 8bit graphic
>>chipset to compare directly with VGA.  Argh.
>
>   You said you are comfortable with inferior technology.  By saying that
>you feel that a chipset with 24-bit color is a bad idea, you are, in effect,
>saying that you are comfortable with the CDTV having inferior technology.
>DIG will *NEVER* benefit the CDTV.  For the CDTV to succeed against CD-I
>in the long run, it needs a totally new chipset with 24-bit color.  
>
	Commodore has, so far, managed to keep the high-end and
low-end pretty tightly coupled, that is to say upwardly
compatible. It seems like we've come to the point where what is
best for the high-end is not best for the low-end.
	Ideally a new chip set AND DIG will come out, but
realistically one will get more priority than the other (jeesh,
how can CBM make anything with 1/20 the budget of Apple. Let's
all give up. 8) A new chip set could be designed for the low-end
machines (read games) that would give great animation and a much
larger number of colors, without much resolution gain. Then DIG
will be essential for the high-end Amiga video work, but
realistically less useful for the A500.
	It'll be interesting to see how the efforts turn out. It
appears that both are being worked on. Will the new chip set be
designed more for video work or more for games, or perhaps both?
Hopefully I'll find out in September at DevCon. 8-)
	-- Ethan

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